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exuberant
dietary
Misnick
healthy
obedient
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Often parents undermine their children’s confidence by endlessly repeating negatives. Such as, “Don’t do this,” or “Don’t do that.”
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It is important that adults (pause) uncover such instances from their own childhood. As adults they can form a kind of understanding parent in their own mind, until they learn how to be sympathetic to their own behavior, and until they realize that life itself is an expression—not a repression.
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Parents may become particularly aware of that lost sense of joyfulness as they watch their own youngsters in their natural play.
Children’s play is extremely important to a child’s development—and when they play children use those exquisite powers of imagination, confidence, and expectation that provide the wellspring for growth and fulfillment. (Pause.) People who are exuberant are healthy. They appreciate the richness and variety of life. Many children, however, are unfortunately taught by their parents to be suspicious of exuberance and high spirits. And ordered instead to be quiet, well-mannered and obedient.
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